#Thread re: Erin O'Toole, the new leader of 🇨🇦's Conservative Party, and the Banderites, as in members and fellow travelers of Stepan Bandera (1909-59)'s Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, which collaborated with the Nazis during WW2 and collaborates with 🇺🇦 neo-Nazis today. 
This article I wrote for the Grayzone earlier this year was originally going to be focused on O'Toole until I realized the Banderites' ties to the Conservative Party went way beyond him. Since then I've learned significantly more about the OUN in Canada. thegrayzone.com/2020/03/26/can…
Erin O'Toole's ties to the Banderites may have begun here, and in particular his "terrific" friendship with Ihor Kozak, a fellow graduate of the Royal Military College of Canada and in fact the first immigrant from the former Soviet Union to do so.
Kozak is the international relations/external affairs director of the League of Ukrainian Canadians (LUC)—a front for what remains of Bandera's OUN-B—as well as a prominent person in the Banderite-led BCU Financial Group. I wrote this re: that last month:
This pic is from December 2019 at a BCU-sponsored event in Toronto. Left to right: Kozak, O'Toole, and Serhiy Kvit, the Banderite ex-Education Minister of 🇺🇦('14-16) & former captain in a far-right paramilitary group founded by OUN-B that spearheaded the creation of Right Sector.
⬇️ O'Toole gives a shout out to the Banderite "ForumTV," managed by Bandera's grandson, produced by BCU, which I also wrote about in my recent blog post about OUN-B in Canada (see my pinned tweet)
⬇️ Kozak & O'Toole with Paul Grod, Banderite president of Ukr-Cdn Congress (then) & Ukrainian World Congress (now), and Andriy Parubiy, white nationalist former chairman of 🇺🇦's parliament (2016-19) & today a top member of the "European Solidarity" party.
⬇️ O'Toole & other Conservative politicians with several prominent Banderites, including Borys Potapenko, president of the Toronto-based @ICSUkraine, the int'l coordinating body of OUN-B affiliated NGOs. O'Toole thanks the OUN-B affiliated LUC leadership.
On the left is Orest Steciw, president of the League of Ukrainian Canadians
As for the "visiting Ukrainian Youth Leaders," they were representatives of the OUN-B's anti-Semitic "Youth Nationalist Congress" (MNK), which I wrote about recently
Via another NGO they set up, the MNK (i.e. OUN-B) is evidently trying to lead a new "revolution" in 🇺🇦 in concert with the far-right (including yes, neo-Nazis). Serhiy Kvit is a leader of their "movement," which is why the Banderites organized his 2019 trip to 🇨🇦. Enter O'Toole.
